8-letter words containing a, n, c, y
- minarchy — (countable) Government with the least necessary power over its citizens.
- monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
- mordancy — the quality of being mordant; sharpness.
- munkacsy — Mihály von [mi-hahy fuh n] /ˈmɪ haɪ fən/ (Show IPA), (Michael Lieb) 1844–1900, Hungarian painter.
- myomancy — a form of divination by observing mice
- nancyboy — (slang, derogatory) An effeminate or homosexual man.
- nascency — beginning to exist or develop: That nascent republic is holding its first election this month.
- naumachy — naumachia.
- navarchy — experience of or skill in nautical matters
- navy cut — tobacco finely cut from a block
- neocracy — Government by the new or inexperienced.
- noctuary — a journal of what happens in the night
- nomarchy — one of the provinces into which modern Greece is divided.
- normalcy — the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
- nugacity — triviality; insignificance.
- numeracy — to represent numbers by symbols.
- nycturia — a condition in which one often wakes up during the night to urinate.
- octonary — pertaining to the number 8.
- peccancy — sinning; guilty of a moral offense.
- pernancy — a taking or receiving, as of the rents or profits of an estate.
- picayune — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- piquancy — agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- pycnidia — (in certain ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti) a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body bearing conidia on conidiophores.
- radiancy — radiance.
- rampancy — a rampant condition or position.
- rancidly — in a rancid manner
- reagency — the quality or condition of being a reagent
- saliency — salience.
- sanctify — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanctity — holiness, saintliness, or godliness.
- sapiency — having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment.
- scammony — a twining, Asian convolvulus, Convolvulus scammonia.
- scantily — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- scantity — the quality of being scant or scarce
- scythian — pertaining to Scythia, its people, or their language.
- seacunny — a steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars
- spinachy — characteristic of spinach
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- sycamine — a tree mentioned in the New Testament, probably the black mulberry.
- symantec — (company) Software manufacturer of utility and development applications for Windows and Macintosh platforms. Products include ACT!, Norton Utilities, Norton AntiVirus, Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh, Symantec Cafe.
- synalgic — referred pain.
- synaptic — Also called syndesis. Cell Biology. the pairing of homologous chromosomes, one from each parent, during early meiosis.
- synarchy — joint rule
- syncopal — Grammar. the contraction of a word by omitting one or more sounds from the middle, as in the reduction of never to ne'er.
- syncytia — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- syndical — of or relating to a union of persons engaged in a particular trade.
- synechia — any adhesion of parts of the body, as of the iris to the cornea.
- tangency — the state of being tangent.
- tenacity — the quality of being tenacious, or of holding fast; persistence: the amazing tenacity of rumors.
- tympanic — pertaining or belonging to a tympanum.